Example sentences of "it would have [been] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Had the tax been implemented at the time it would have noticeably increased the number of tax exiles who were leaving the country , for never mind pop-stars and sportsmen , it would have been even worth the while of middle management to seek a place in the ex-colonial countries , or to learn a new tongue for residence in a foreign land , simply in order to achieve some savings and improve his family life and provide for dependants . |
| 2 | ‘ It would have been just like Chris to hide the Grimoire down there , ’ Donna said , pointing towards the abyss beyond the steps . |
| 3 | It would have been just like her to take a method like this to exact a petty revenge for their disagreements , landing Folly with a pile of unwanted stock that she could n't refuse without souring relations with her supplier . |
| 4 | ‘ It would have been just like Jean to have gone along for the journey . ’ |
| 5 | It would have been still worth one million pounds had it not been cancelled of course , and the item is actually cancelled , so consequently , naturally not . |
| 6 | I do n't know if it would have been there in Flaubert 's day . |
| 7 | ‘ Oh , ’ said McAllister furiously , remembering something which she did not like to remember , ‘ you mean it would have been perfectly in order for him to attack me if he 'd known me ? ’ |
| 8 | As they say it would have been all over the village the smell and everything it is wrong . |
| 9 | If she knew he was near , watching her from that distant , unimaginable place , then these past months of playing her part , of continuing Mark 's glorious laughter and zest for life in a sort of living memorial to his spirit — well , then it would have been all worth it . |
| 10 | If Erika Payers had failed to get to the church ( registry office , actually ) on time , it would have been entirely in keeping with her costume . |
| 11 | ‘ It would have been more to the point if you 'd attacked Ryan , ’ he said brutally , ‘ because , despite your lousy opinion of me , I 've done nothing to deliberately hurt you . |
| 12 | It would have been more in keeping with his mood if yesterday 's rain had persisted . |
| 13 | The Labour government 's priority from 1964 onwards was the servicing of the economy in response to demands made on them by capital ; in so far as working-class girls could have contributed to this , it would have been only in those unskilled jobs for which greater or better education was not required . |
| 14 | In the light of this fact it seems possible to suggest that those authors who subscribe to the former view do so because in later times it would have been only in the rarest of circumstances that one would have held the kadilik after the kazaskerlik . |
| 15 | No doubt it would have been so to Descartes , Malebranche , and Locke : they might have agreed with Berkeley that what we perceive are ideas . |
| 16 | Half a century ago it would have been so in fact . |